Lunch with PV
Nov 5, 2022
The blessings that come from those poignant offerings given to you by dear friends need to be truly celebrated, no matter how small the statement.
I hadn’t seen PV in about 4 years. You could see the density of those years on our faces and in our dialogue. The decades of knowing each other had done its job in forgoing the time wastage of casual initial recaps. We both have the similar ratio of reserved nature and intense depth of all things we don’t share with others. We both had recently had ticked quite a few of the boxes that are listed on the high stressor instigators. Hers were deaths, retirement, moving counties away, redefining her career. Mine were divorce, moving, selling a home, a new relationship and too, redefining my career.
We determined our conversation’s time limitations and opted to do one sided Q&A’s in order to maximize the time together in case it may be hundreds of days again before we could reconnect. Neither of us are the type to waste time using alternate mediums to relay conversations — they don’t bring the necessary complexity that is required of relationships built on quality.
PV made me start. I’m usually pretty good at the Coles notes version of life’s journeys. The labyrinth of my life’s scenarios made it interestingly palatable enough. Quippy pull-quote type of snippets to define each significant scenario…
